Beat Up Nickel

I knew an old dog (german shepherd) that used to chew coins. With the strength in her jaws she could bend pennies and nickels in half. My guess is that's how your nickel got this way.

Gravel parking lots and many tires will make coins look like this one !!


Rick

Not sure if this still goes on but here is a possible explanation. When I was a kid there used to be a game called lagging coins or something like that. Living in Chicago there is just lots of nice concrete sidewalks looking for something to happen to. Some kids write on them in chalk, sharpen knives on them, paint gang signs on them, etc. Then there is this game using coins. A group of kids stand behind a line in the sidewalk and pitch coins at a distand line. Usually the second or third line pending on the spacing of lines. The closest coin wins. This goes on for many hours of course unless someone is really good at it and starts to win to much. Of course when this happened no one would play with him. So the game went on and on and on. The results were numerous coins that looked like that. I've always wondered how many valuable coins we distroyed.
Then naturally there is the 4th of July where you put fire crackers in a hole in the ground and place coins on top of it, light and run.
You should see what a shot gun does to coins.

Speaking of coin destruction, it reminds me of an odd thing I observed when I was in high school (class of '64). There was a girl in my algebra class who had the very peculiar habit of mutilating pennies.

I think it must have started one day when she happened to see a penny on the floor under her desk. She put her foot on it and spent the entire class period moving the penny back and forth on the (stone-like) floor under her foot. When class was over, she picked it up, and the underside of the coin was a smooth disk of bright copper.

She must have been pleased by that result, because every day for the rest of the term, she would put another penny on the floor and do the same thing. I don't know if she ever turned them over to get both sides rubbed raw or not, nor do I know what she did with them.

I do remember being annoyed by the sound it made.